On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 04:34:38PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > 1) People that telnet to the box can go around and cat files (even > /etc/passwd!) without even logging in.
The Hurd has the concept of a user who is not logged in. A fourth set of rwx permissions. Those are set to r-x by default it seems. The right fix would be to modify chmod etc to support those flags and make use of it. (It's not a bug, it's a feature.) > 2) df doesn't work, saying: > > df: cannot read table of mounted filesystems Use "df /" or other pathes for other mount points. The decentralised design of the Hurd makes it infeasible to have a central repository like mtab. There may be a solution later, but currently no list of mounted partitions is available, so you have to specify which one you want to check. > 3) there is no proc proc is by no means any standard in any way. There is the libps library if you need to talk to the proc server. If you want to write a proc fs emulator for linux binaries, go for it. It can be implemented as a translator :) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
